KYIV, Feb 11 – Ukraine in January 2021 reduced electricity exports by 92.6% (by 645.3 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2020, to 51.9 million kWh, according to the data of Ukrenergo.

KYIV, Feb 11 – Ukrainian banks saw UAH 41.3 billion in net profit in 2020, which is 29% less than a year earlier, but in the fourth quarter the decline was 63% due to increased contributions to reserves, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said on Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 10 – DTEK will increase coal imports to 450,000 tons in February, which will secure the operation of as much equipment of the company's power plants as possible in February-March, as well as allow meeting obligations to Centerenergo, DTEK CEO Maksym Timchenko has said.

KYIV, Feb 11 – More than 300,000 Ukrainians traveled across the country and overseas during Christmas and New Year holidays, according to data provided by Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest cell phone company.

KYIV, Feb 10 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is mulling the possibilities of attracting financing via the issue of loan participation notes secured by the transit contract with PJSC Gazprom generating stable money flows, Executive Officer of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Yuriy Vitrenko has said.

KYIV, Feb 10 – The revenue of Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), the parent company of Metinvest mining and smelting group, in November 2019 decreased by 13%, or by $104 million compared to the previous month, to $693 million from $797 million.

KYIV, Feb 10 – Interpipe, a vertically integrated pipe and wheel company, in 2019 reduced sales of pipe and railway products in natural terms by 7% compared to the previous year, to 798,000 tons, while the share of exports in the structure of sales amounted to 76%, the share of the domestic market decreased to 24% from 28%.

KYIV, Feb 10 – Inflation in Ukraine in January 2020 amounted to 0.2% compared to 1% in January 2019, which led to its annual decline to 3.2% from 4.1%, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KYIV, Feb 10 – Six out of 10 members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) have advocated cutting the key policy rate by 2 percentage points (pp) instead of 2.5 pp cut, according to the results of a meeting of the NBU MPC held on January 29.

KYIV, Feb 10 – Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Larisa Galadza have discussed expanding the agreement on free trade in the field of services and investments and simplifying the visa regime for Ukrainians.